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Separate beds, wards: How Covid-19 suspects are treated at hospitals

Initially, there were reports that dedicated facilities were allegedly not allowing suspected Covid-19 patients but later the government asked hospitals to attend to them as well

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Patients attend the morning Yoga session, organised by the ITBP at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre and Hospital in New Delhi

Press Trust of India New Delhi

3 min read Last Updated : Jul 29 2020 | 3:20 PM IST

Patients exhibiting major symptoms of Covid-19 but not confirmed to have the infection are being admitted to dedicated facilities in Delhi but their treatment is done in a segregated zone until their test results come out, doctors have said.

Initially, there were reports that dedicated facilities were allegedly not allowing suspected Covid-19 patients but later the government asked hospitals to attend to them as well.

From LNJP, the first Delhi government-run hospital to be declared a dedicated Covid-19 facility, to GTB Hospital in east Delhi, serious suspected patients are immediately wheeled into an ICU.

However, the suspected coronavirus patients are kept in a separate ward seat

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